episode_0022

On Monday morning, I woke up to Yuri Lee’s talk alarm.

[Yuri Lee]: Are you awake? Come to my house by 7:30

“Cute.”

Yuri Lee really seemed to have woken up early to prepare a packed lunch for me.

I was filled with all kinds of emotions, from being grateful, to being cute, to feeling a little sorry.

After quickly washing up and getting dressed, I went to the front of Yuri Yuri’s house and saw Yuri Lee wearing a black skirt, a white dress shirt, a red tie, and a checkered skirt, holding a small bundle in her hand.

Lee Yu-ri saw me and waved, and we joined in and walked to school together very naturally.

“Is that a lunch box for me? What’s inside?”

“I put in roughly anything. Don’t expect much… I really just made it!”

“Heh, yes, I guess so.”

“What, why are you smiling?”

“Because it’s cute.”

“Cute…! Oh, really, what are you talking about? Pretending to be relaxed is annoying! receive! I’m going!”

Yu-ri Lee jumped up, lost her temper, and roughly pushed out her lunch box.

As soon as I received it, Yu-ri Lee showed signs of being angry and strode ahead, but I couldn’t sense her sincerity in her anger or in the way she walked ahead, abandoning me.

The proof is that even though I immediately followed him and walked next to him, he didn’t speed up and just walked together.

“Are you upset?”

“No.”

“Oh my~ You were so cute when you went home after drinking on Saturday, but now you are full of thorns.”

Yu-ri Lee stopped at my words and looked at me with trembling eyes.

“My, my, what am I…? I don’t remember anything…?”

“Oh, I thought so. It must be hard to get that drunk from three glasses of soju. How did you do it?”

“I don’t know! I don’t know! I don’t remember, so don’t talk about it!”

In the end, Yuri never made eye contact with me the entire way to the academy.

……

Meanwhile, when the memory of Saturday night came to mind, Lee Yu-ri’s face began to heat up again.

– Because I like you.

Even though I was drunk, I remembered everything clearly.

And of her own volition, she packed a breakfast lunch for the man she said she liked.

As Han Seong-jin puts it, it’s like a newlywed…

‘Oh, no!’

Yuri Lee shook her head vigorously.

‘I’m not taking care of him because I like him! That’s because a guy who can’t even afford to pay tuition keeps insisting that he doesn’t need a tuition support system, so as the student council president, I have to pay the least amount of consideration to the students in my class…’

However, as she began to become conscious again, she became afraid of looking at Han Seong-jin’s face, and her heartbeat only got faster and faster.

……

Because it was earlier than usual, there were still few people at the academy.

Before entering the classroom, we headed to the flower bed next to the playground and sat down on the bench there.

I forgot my packed lunch in the classroom last morning, and since the penalty period for cleaning up after school was extended, I decided to eat it here.

When I opened the lid, a menu with everything I needed was revealed, including steaming white rice, Vienna sausages, stir-fried anchovies, vegetables, and kimchi.

It was almost the same menu as the lunch box I made last time, but there was a slight difference…

“What is this?”

A ☆ shape is made with black beans on top of rice.

Even though it was still early spring, Yu-ri Lee was sweating profusely and avoiding my gaze.

“Did you put all this decoration in just to give it to me? It’s cute.”

“No! Well, I just had some beans left…”

“Then you can just roughly put it on. Why did you put so much effort into making a star shape?”

“That… seems a little insincere, so…”

I smiled and stroked Yuri’s head.

Normally, Lee Yu-ri would have made a fuss, but seeing what she was doing made me think that it was okay to do this.

” Hey, why are you doing this so fucking cute?”

“Hehe! Ugh, why are you making such a fuss about stroking my head?! And don’t say things like that!”

“Did you not want to hear it?”

“……”

When asked if he didn’t want to hear it, he was silent, so it seemed like he didn’t really like it.

I think this has come a long way now.

However, if I go any further here, my likeability may drop again, so I decided to stop here and quickly finished off Yuri Lee’s homemade lunch box.

While I was eating, Yuri Lee stayed right next to me as I enjoyed the lunch box she made and looked at me quietly.

“Ah~ I enjoyed it. I almost died of hunger, but thanks to you, I survived.”

“Was it delicious?”

“Uh. I wish I could eat it every day.”

Lee Yu-ri’s face turned red again as she heard words that could be interpreted in many different ways and snatched up the empty lunch box.

This guy is really easy to understand if you just look at him.

“Who does this all the time?! Just until you get paid from your part-time job. Even if you ask me to do it after that, I won’t do it!”

“Just give me the container. Just like last time, I will wash it and then bring it to you.”

“I’ll just do it. If you’re done eating, let’s go in quickly.”

After finishing our morning date, which was not a morning date with Yuri Lee, we went into the classroom together.

The kids in the class started to go to school one by one, and of course Gong Young-bae soon showed up as well.

As soon as I saw Gong Young-bae, I was struck by the urge to give that bastard a few hits, but I decided to stop making a fuss because doing so could only get Yu-ri Lee into more trouble.

Instead, I decided to provoke Gong Young-bae as soon as he sat down.

This person’s seat happened to be two rows in front of my desk, so there was no need to raise my voice that loudly.

“Hey, Lee Yu-ri. Come here for a moment.”

“Ah, why again.”

I saw Gong Yeong-bae flinch at me naturally calling Yu-ri Lee, and at Yu-ri Lee’s behavior of obediently coming when she asked me to come.

He didn’t turn his head so he couldn’t see us, but I was sure he was listening to the conversation.

You fucking bastard, fuck yourself for daring to make the person who would be my woman cry.

“Next time you go to an escape room cafe, should you try a thriller?”

“What?! Never! I thought I was going to die last time because I was scared, but are you asking me to do something worse than that?”

“Well, it was really cute to watch. It wasn’t like screaming, crying, hugging, arms folding, making a fuss.”

While saying that, I glanced at Gong Young-bae from the corner of my eye and saw him shaking.

But what can you do if you struggle?

On the other hand, Yu-ri Lee’s face was so bright red that steam came out and she jumped up.

“My, when did I do that?!”

“Hmm? If you don’t remember when it happened, go to the horror-themed escape room one more time-”

“Wow! Wow! Okay, I got it! I did! That’s why don’t go for horror themes!”

“Now I’m finally being honest. Then, I will slowly look into escape rooms later… Then, how about DDR instead?”

“Uh! That’s great! It was great exercise and a lot of fun.”

When I mentioned the time when Yu-ri Lee was most excited during a weekend date, she immediately smiled brightly like a child and nodded.

“But do you have money?”

“Keuhm, actually, that’s why, but for something as expensive as an escape room, it’s going to be hard until I get my paycheck… I guess I’ll just have to make do with something like DDR in the meantime, right?”

“I like it. Oh, and air hockey looks fun too, how about that? Coin karaoke too! The price was cheap, so next time I go, I’ll buy it!”

“Are you already making plans for next weekend? Our Chairman, aren’t you so in love with me?”

“Ah, what are you saying again! Seriously, whenever you say something, you always fall into that direction! Okay, once I’ve said everything I have to say, I’ll be back!”

Yu-ri Lee pouted her mouth and walked away again.

Even though I must have seen Gong Young-bae just two rows in front of me, Lee Yu-ri had no hesitation in mentioning my weekend date or talking about our next appointment.

It’s as if Gong Young-bae is being treated as invisible.

They say that if a woman harbors resentment, there will be frost even in May and New Year, and it was a little scary that her anger towards Gong Yeong-bae must have been so great that she would treat her like a non-existent person.

But Gong Young-bae, isn’t this all your karma for only getting girls’ affection and not wanting to give them an answer?

Once Yuri Lee becomes my woman, I will introduce her to you.

……

Gong Young-bae felt like his insides were burning as he listened to the conversation between Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri.

Date, our president, escape room cafe, arcade, DDR, coin karaoke…

There wasn’t a single word that didn’t penetrate Gong Young-bae’s eardrums.

Gong Young-bae was so impatient and anxious that he kept shaking his legs, but he kept his cool on the outside and kept repeating to himself that he never looked back.

‘Yuri… are you acting like you want me to hear that we had a fight last week?’

My stomach was boiling.

Gong Young-bae still thought that what he said to Yu-ri Lee last week was sincere advice, and he believed that it was Yu-ri Lee’s problem that he couldn’t accept it.

‘No, don’t be upset. I’m the one who likes Yuri the most anyway. We’ve been together like that since a long time ago, but there’s no way he would leave me and give his heart to someone else, especially a scum like Han Seong-jin.

Anyway, Yuri, you’re in the palm of my hand. A guy like that is just physiologically unreasonable for you. If you don’t take my advice and act petty like that, I will stay silent until you realize your mistake.’

He still didn’t know that Yu-ri Lee’s heart had already been stolen by Han Seong-jin.

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Another part-time job is scheduled from today to Thursday.

You’ll be very busy for the next four days, so make sure to sleep hard during class and build up your stamina…

“Han Seongjin!”

The plan was broken as soon as morning assembly time started.

My homeroom teacher called my name with an angry expression, and soon all the students’ eyes turned to me.

“Are you skipping the entire afternoon class on Friday? It’s not even been a month since the semester started, so what are you doing!”

“Sorry.”

Lee Yu-ri, who was sitting in the front row in the middle of the classroom, looked at me with an angry expression.

Because she had no idea that I had dinged her.

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“Huh?! Wait a minute, teacher! Right in the afternoon after that academy-”

“It’s noisy. Then you shouldn’t have left school early without notice. And Yuri, if you get a medical certificate from the hospital, you also have to submit it, right?”

“…… That teacher.”

When Lee Yu-ri heard that I was working part-time in the afternoon, she looked at me once and then at the teacher, then raised her hand.

Because Lee Yu-ri was such a model student, the teacher responded in a much gentler manner than when she scolded me.

“Yes, why are you doing that?”

“… I… I don’t have a medical certificate. Actually, I was just faking it. Sorry.”